Information Technology & People: Volume 17 Issue 3

Media transitions: The cases of digital imagery and e‐mail

Kimberly Cass, Thomas W. Lauer

This paper presents a framework for understanding the technological change and its impacts on environments where multiple versions of a technology exist simultaneously. Both…

Exploring the role of network effects in IT implementation: The case of knowledge repositories

Jørgen P. Bansler, Erling Havn

This paper seeks to analyze the role of network effects in relation to the adoption and use of systems for knowledge sharing in organizations and draws on recent developments…

Designing for ease is designing for all: Experiences from a simplified office suite

Panagiotis Destounis, John Garofalakis, George Mavritsakis, Maria Rigou, Spiros Sirmakessis, Giannis Tzimas

Aims to present the work done in the development of a simplified office suite for disabled and focus on the use of technology applied to the area of “designing for all”. The paper…

The power of myth in the IT workplace: Creating a 24‐hour workday during the dot‐com bubble

Andrea H. Tapia

The central purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that managers of several IT companies, during the dot‐com bubble, used the myths that were readily available in the wider…

Personal characteristics as predictors of job satisfaction: An exploratory study of IT managers in a developing economy

John O. Okpara

The impact of information technology (IT) on society is tremendous. Globalization of trade, the emergence of information economies, and the growth of the Internet and other global…

Toward a Political Economy of Culture – Capitalism and Communication in the Twenty‐First Century

Annemijn F. van Gorp

Global IT Outsourcing: Software Development across Borders

Haiyan Huang

Has Feminism Changed Science?

Jeria L. Quesenberry

Editorial

Edgar A. Whitley, Eleanor Wynn